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Capriccio showing a large building with five-bay portico and pediment with a long side façade having a central triumphal arch and shallow dome above. In the foreground are a bridge, figures and triumphal column.
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Reference number
Adam vol.56/134
Purpose
Capriccio showing a large building with five-bay portico and pediment with a long side façade having a central triumphal arch and shallow dome above. In the foreground are a bridge, figures and triumphal column.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 97; in red ink 134.
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1756 or 1757.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, brown and grey washes; ink framing line140 x 185, 3 corners, except bottom right, are torn
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
This is a perspective view of buildings in the antique style that characterises the drawings found in Adam volume 55. In its depiction of an imaginery monumental building, it can be compared with Adam vol.56/70, one of the few smaller compositions in this volume not of ruins, and also the drawing in Sir John Soane Museum, SM Drawer 48/6/4f. There is a copy of this drawing by C J Richardson (1806-1871) in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (P&D 93.G.8/47).
Level
Drawing
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